Unmeritedly

When unlearned drivers who bought their driving licences unmeritedly take people to a ghastly end, it is a mere rally of transient emotions. ❋ Unknown (2008)

How difficult it is to be a philosopher has merited less attention - unmeritedly so, I believe - for obvious reasons. ❋ Unknown (2008)

So little did censorial animadversion avail, so as to prevent them from seeking a regulator of their affairs from a family unmeritedly censured, as soon as the condition of the state stood in need of genuine merit. ❋ Titus Livius (N/A)

Africa, enslaved in your country; they plead not guilty to every charge of crime, and unmeritedly endure the sufferings you impose upon them. ❋ William Frederick Poole (N/A)

The long moustaches that gave the man's face an unmeritedly ferocious expression lifted characteristically. ❋ Unknown (1893)

He thought too little of his life's value, or of its deserts, even to consider by any chance that it had been harshly dealt with, or unmeritedly visited. ❋ 1839-1908 Ouida (1873)

The faithless and tyrannical policy of Philip II. has unmeritedly drawn down on the whole nation the hatred of foreigners. ❋ August Wilhelm Schlegel (1806)

"In search of bread and honour, my lord," answered I, "having unmeritedly lost them both in my own country." ❋ Friedrich Trenck (1760)

And if your Magnificence from the summit of your greatness will sometimes turn your eyes to these lower regions, you will see how unmeritedly I suffer a great and continued malignity of fortune. ❋ Unknown (1515)

As the author himself mentions in a note (p. 500) that this gave rise, "most unmeritedly," to great excitement, and called down upon him the violent attacks of the clerical press, I may be allowed to point out here that it contained nothing new, I myself, fifteen years previously, in my lectures on "The ❋ Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1876)

Sir John Afhby, who had juft brfore been rtifed to the rank of vice-admiral of the red*, ferved in that ftation during this engagement, and led the van of the carl of Torrington 's divifion; but he was totally exempt from any part of that cenfure which was fo loudly excited by the failure of fuccefs, and which fo unmeritedly roufed the indignation and violence of party againft the great but, imfortunate carl of Torrington. ❋ Unknown (1794)